Since getting the Amazon Fire TV stick, I've subscribed to CBS All Access, at least for the two-week trial period. I've been watching Star Trek: Discovery. I'm impressed. Apparently, CBS put a lot of that subscription money into the production. The production values are very high, and the story line is good. I expect to finish watching the second season soon.

It's a shame that we must pay to watch it, though. I think it's only $10 a month, but when I add up all the "small" charges I have every month, it winds up being a huge amount every year.

Another SciFi series you might enjoy - the ten year run of "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate Atlantis" - The Stargate series is a big favorite of mine (and my wife), well done, great writing, excellent story line continuety.....the links to our own past, the stories of many great and powerful "gods", humans spreding out into the galaxies.... it is a pretty interesting series. There were nearly 250 episodes and several movies (I think) so it will entertain for some time..... For total continuety, see the original movie first, then move into the series.

Since getting the Amazon Fire TV stick, I've subscribed to CBS All Access, at least for the two-week trial period. I've been watching Star Trek: Discovery. I'm impressed. Apparently, CBS put a lot of that subscription money into the production. The production values are very high, and the story line is good. I expect to finish watching the second season soon.

It's a shame that we must pay to watch it, though. I think it's only $10 a month, but when I add up all the "small" charges I have every month, it winds up being a huge amount every year.

Unfortunately, my current home has never had an outside TV antenna installed, but it looks like it's going to get one soon. There is a lot of programming available off air locally, because I have checked it out with an indoor antenna. Unfortunately, the indoor one is simply not reliable and it's going to take a good outside antenna before I can make the total switch over. Anyway, I'm going to have a hard time giving up Discovery, History, Sci-Fi, channels, etc. However, we are now on a fixed income and a tight budget and the price for cable TV and internet services just continue to go up and up and I've pretty much reached my breaking point!

On another note, does anyone else feel like the number of commercials has gotten out of hand? While off air stations make their only income on running these ads and as an ex-broadcast engineer I understand that. However, the cable channels effectively double dip by running the excessive ads and getting their monthly subscription price as well. Seems to me that for the price of my subscription, that they could at least minimize the number of ads they run, but we all know that's not going to happen! Anyway, we too watch mostly recorded programs, so we can zip through the commercial breaks whenever possible and a DVR/off air tuner combo sounds like a real good investment with the direction things seem to be going. All in all, I guess I'm going to have to spend more time with my camera! Thanks for the input, good luck and good shooting to all.